Maribel Medina (Pamplona) has a passion for travel has taken her as far as India, but for the past 25 years, she has called the Baztán Valley in Navarra home. As a teenager, she became an orphan, forcing her to abandon her dream of becoming an astrophysicist and instead pursue a degree in Geography and History. Later, she worked as an external reader for a national publishing house.
In 2014, she published Sangre de barro (Blood of Mud), a crime novel about doping in sports that achieved critical and commercial success. This was soon followed by the next installment in the Connors series, Sangre intocable (Untouchable Blood), which continued to tackle international plots rooted in real-world issues. In 2019, the final book of the Blood trilogy, Sangre entre la hierba (Blood Among the Grass), was released.
Exploring a new genre, she published the illustrated story El Niño-Hoja (The Leaf-Child). Medina has served as a judge for various literary competitions, including the Tenerife Noir Prize and the prestigious María Moliner Award.
Since 2019, she has been the president and director of Mi Pueblo Lee, a national rural network of literary festivals that was honored in 2024 with the National Award for Promoting Reading.
On the wall of her office, the words “A bold life or nothing” are written—a reflection of her fearless approach to life and literature.